Opening: August 7, 2009 (Limited Release) August 14, 2009 (Nationwide)
I finished watching this trailer and said "awwwww." Before that, I was a little skeptical. This may be a poor reason to want to see a movie, but I love Micahel Cera, or at least I loved him in Arrested Development, so a movie that lets me see the little rascal fall in love just makes me want to emit giggly squeals of school girl delight.
That little fit over with, it's time to talk about what we're actually watching.
The premise here is that Charlyne Yi (Michael Cera's girlfriend, awwww) and guide for the documentary is after the answer to the conundrum "What is love?" I doubt that she ever finds the answer, but the premise is adorable. Yep, I said that, adorable.
I just wonder if you're in the pursuit of a mystery that can't be solved, can you make a satisfying plot? We are a culture that likes a happy ending and demands a tidy one. We can deal if things don't turn out the way we'd hoped, but when there's no resolution it rarely leads to the existential experience that the auteur was trying to evoke. Instead, we're pissed. So I can't help but think that is where we're going to end up with in "Paper Heart". We might get cute, but probably not provocative, which seems to be the films intent. Unfortunately, all I see here is a little more star gazing; provided you think of Michael Cera and Charlyne Yi as stars.
I finished watching this trailer and said "awwwww." Before that, I was a little skeptical. This may be a poor reason to want to see a movie, but I love Micahel Cera, or at least I loved him in Arrested Development, so a movie that lets me see the little rascal fall in love just makes me want to emit giggly squeals of school girl delight.
That little fit over with, it's time to talk about what we're actually watching.
The premise here is that Charlyne Yi (Michael Cera's girlfriend, awwww) and guide for the documentary is after the answer to the conundrum "What is love?" I doubt that she ever finds the answer, but the premise is adorable. Yep, I said that, adorable.
I just wonder if you're in the pursuit of a mystery that can't be solved, can you make a satisfying plot? We are a culture that likes a happy ending and demands a tidy one. We can deal if things don't turn out the way we'd hoped, but when there's no resolution it rarely leads to the existential experience that the auteur was trying to evoke. Instead, we're pissed. So I can't help but think that is where we're going to end up with in "Paper Heart". We might get cute, but probably not provocative, which seems to be the films intent. Unfortunately, all I see here is a little more star gazing; provided you think of Michael Cera and Charlyne Yi as stars.
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